The New Carrie

Updated Thursday March 29, 9.07am: Another Monday, another weekend's worth of pictures of AnnaSophia Robb - the actress playing a young Carrie Bradshaw - from the set of The Carrie Diaries. This time, a typically Carrie look of sequinned dress and bright shoes was the highlight.

Updated Monday March 26, 10.12am: The new Carrie Bradshaw, AnnaSophia Robb, has been filming in New York again this weekend - showing off an array of outfits that are precisely what we imagine Carrie would wear in the Eighties: her usual feminine colourful creations, turned up a notch.

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Updated Thursday March 22, 8.17am:Sarah Jessica Parker has written to AnnaSophia Robb - the young actress who will play her most famous character Carrie Bradshaw in The Carrie Diaries, a prequel to the Sex And The City franchise, set to be released later this year.

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"She sent me a letter! I wrote her one back, too," Robb told Us Weekly earlier this week. "She was just very encouraging about it all. It was really cool!"

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Robb was pictured on set yesterday for the first time since being revealed as the new Carrie, filming with fellow actresses Ellen Wong, who plays Carrie's best friend Jill 'The Mouse' Thompson; and Stefania Owen, who plays Carrie's rebellious younger sister Dorrit.

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Updated Tuesday February 28, 12.02pm:AnnaSophia Robb has been confirmed as the actress who will play the young Carrie Bradshaw in the highly-anticipated The Carrie Diaries - the prequel to Sex and the City - according to The Hollywood Reporter. The 18-year-old is best known for taking on the role of Violet Beauregarde in Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and was recently cast as Wendy in a new film spin-off of Peter Pan, alongside Terence Stamp and Sean Bean. The new SATC-related television show will focus on Bradshaw's coming of age as a 16 and 17-year-old, from finding her first love to how she originally met Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda.

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Updated Friday January 20, 3.16pm: Following months of speculation, The CW Network has confirmed that it is bringing Carrie Bradshaw back to television screens in a Sex and the City prequel series. Based on SATC creator Candace Bushnell's novel, The Carrie Diaries, the new show will go back to the Eighties to span Bradshaw's teenage high school years. Casting is yet to be confirmed, although Blake Lively, Miley Cyrus and Glee's Dianna Agron have all been linked to the role made famous by Sarah Jessica Parker. Amy B. Harris, who worked on the original HBO series, has been confirmed as the writer.

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"Ultimately, Darren Star - the man who created the hit series - will have the overall say, but everyone is agreed a TV show is the direction they want to take the franchise in," a source told the Daily Mail. "Sarah Jessica Parker will be producing. She was worried about doing another film after the bad reaction to the SATC2 movie, but a TV show is definitely something she wants to happen."

Plans were reportedly already at an advanced stage for a film about the early lives of Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha and Miranda - rumoured to be starring Blake Lively in the lead role - but it seems that will now be put on hold in favour of a SATC television return.

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MARCH 31 - AnnaSophia Robb arrived on set in bright pink jeans and knee-high boots, complete with Carrie curls.

MARCH 31 - Wearing a Carrie look that fans of the show were used to seeing in the early seasons of Sex And The City - sequinned prom dress, bright belt, printed cardigan and bright heels - Robb smiled as she filmed her scenes on Saturday.